Someone somewhere got HACKED!

[woodyman100]

My wife woke me up this morning to tell me she received an alert from Capital One that an 85 dollar charge showed up on her SD'd Platinum card.

i grabbed the iPad from the nightstand and looked up her account. Lo and behold there was a charge from 24houranswers.com along with a $249 charge with Amtrak.com the previous day.

That card has been in the Safe for the 7 months she has had it. She has taken it out and charged a grand total of 162.71 over 7 months spread out over 8 transactions just to keep it active.

Capital One was very gracious and cancelled the card immediately, but I'm racking my brain trying to figure this one out

[TRC_WA]

Good luck figuring it out.

Last year I had a late night $500 ATM withdrawal from my checking account...  BECU had already caught it and refunded the money before I had woke up and checked my bank accounts as I do each morning.

A tricky theft to figure out... card was still in my possession.

I later found out mine was part of a "ATM skimmer" scam that hit people for hundreds of thousands in ATM thefts.  They stole my swipe somewhere... where I have no idea.

[Anonymous]

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@woodyman100 wrote:

My wife woke me up this morning to tell me she received an alert from Capital One that an 85 dollar charge showed up on her SD'd Platinum card.

i grabbed the iPad from the nightstand and looked up her account. Lo and behold there was a charge from 24houranswers.com along with a $249 charge with Amtrak.com the previous day.

That card has been in the Safe for the 7 months she has had it. She has taken it out and charged a grand total of 162.71 over 7 months spread out over 8 transactions just to keep it active.

Capital One was very gracious and cancelled the card immediately, but I'm racking my brain trying to figure this one out

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Happened to me a couple of times over the years.

On a side note my Netflix account was hacked the other day. I wouldn't have known but one of the bozos using it changed the language to Porteguese and set up a profile.

Not too bright. One phone call later and their movie night was wrecked....

[elim]

all of my cards have alerts set for any charges over $1 (great for SD'd cards)

while i'm picking my purchases up from the counters i get the standard Samsung whistle from my pocket so it's pretty fast.

sorry to hear about the dirtbags getting your info...  has to really suck.

[Skye12329]

What's worse is that no matter how much we tighten security there's always going to be that one person. At least you caught it. This is why we have fraud protection on cards

[woodyman100]

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@Anonymous wrote:

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@woodyman100 wrote:

My wife woke me up this morning to tell me she received an alert from Capital One that an 85 dollar charge showed up on her SD'd Platinum card.

i grabbed the iPad from the nightstand and looked up her account. Lo and behold there was a charge from 24houranswers.com along with a $249 charge with Amtrak.com the previous day.

That card has been in the Safe for the 7 months she has had it. She has taken it out and charged a grand total of 162.71 over 7 months spread out over 8 transactions just to keep it active.

Capital One was very gracious and cancelled the card immediately, but I'm racking my brain trying to figure this one out

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Happened to me a couple of times over the years.

On a side note my Netflix account was hacked the other day. I wouldn't have known but one of the bozos using it changed the language to Porteguese and set up a profile.

Not too bright. One phone call later and their movie night was wrecked....

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Portuguese? That is a story I want to hear..

[Anonymous]

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@elim wrote:

all of my cards have alerts set for any charges over $1 (great for SD'd cards)

while i'm picking my purchases up from the counters i get the standard Samsung whistle from my pocket so it's pretty fast.

sorry to hear about the dirtbags getting your info...  has to really suck.

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Great idea!!

[woodyman100]

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@elim wrote:

all of my cards have alerts set for any charges over $1 (great for SD'd cards)

while i'm picking my purchases up from the counters i get the standard Samsung whistle from my pocket so it's pretty fast.

sorry to hear about the dirtbags getting your info...  has to really suck.

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I love that Chase and Amex alert me about a millionth of a second after the swipe. Barclays takes about 2-3 days on average. They need to fix something there. Barclays could probably save a ton of money on fraud losses by using a Chase like system.

[phillyguy12]

that sux op saddly though we prob wont find out who for another few months, also woodyman 100 it depens on how obv it is w/ barclays, someone tried to charge 2400 in jet fuel in china to my barclay card and they flagged it right away, i had a text, and email seconds apart  and they put my account into limited view on their site so i couldn't see all the info, i called and told them unfort, no i dont own a jet, know anyone that does and that i haven't been to china 

@woodyman100 wrote:

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@elim wrote:

all of my cards have alerts set for any charges over $1 (great for SD'd cards)

while i'm picking my purchases up from the counters i get the standard Samsung whistle from my pocket so it's pretty fast.

sorry to hear about the dirtbags getting your info...  has to really suck.

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I love that Chase and Amex alert me about a millionth of a second after the swipe. Barclays takes about 2-3 days on average. They need to fix something there. Barclays could probably save a ton of money on fraud losses by using a Chase like system.

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[Anonymous]

Skimmer got my Navy card a few months ago. Scammers were at Kroger 100+ miles from me Thanksgiving day with about 400 something and it was declined. They made several small purchases before, One looked like a tank of fuel. I would think if that was the case there would be a video of the tag on the car.

OP, you said they bought a amtrak ticket, I assume one shows ID or something, I have never traveled by Amtrak. I know the ticket has a name so I wonder how aggressivly they track the trail. From what I have seen it seems alot of these card scammers buy stuff for themselfs and dont seem too bright (although bright enough to scam our CC info!) and it dosent seem like it would be too hard to track some of them.

Do they (the cc company that takes the hit) go after them?